24. Henry Farrer
(1843-1903)
Sunset, Gowanus Bay

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Farrer: Sunset, Gowanus Bay

Sunset, Gowanus Bay

Etching, 1880, 160 x 239 mm. Fine impression on buff laid paper with good margins, probably as published by the American Art Review in 1880. Farrer, born in England, as were so many of the 1880s American etchers, came to America as a young man in 1863 and opened a studio in New York. He was among the earliest of the painter-etchers, a founding member of the New York Etching Club and, probably, the first artist to take New York City and its waterways as the major subject of his works. Farrer was a magnificent watercolorist and some of the tonalism of that work crept into his etchings, albeit without the subtleties of atmosphere that color can bring to a work. The Gowanus Canal is in Brooklyn, where Farrer lived and died. Strangely, though, he was buried in Brompton Cemetery, London.

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